Sep 11 2009
Petty merges with Yates and switches to Ford
It was announced yesterday that Richard Petty Motorsports will merge with Yates Racing and will switch brands from Dodge to Ford. They will field 4 cars with the 98 driven by Paul Menard coming over to Petty while doing away with the 44 which is driven by A.J. Allmendinger currently. Allmendinger will hop in the 43 car which is currently being driven by Reed Sorenson so that leaves Reed without a ride for next year.
Also their is a rumor that Yates will bring back the number 28 car and Elliott Sadler will drive it. If that happens then they will scrap the number 19 Sadler currently drives. I found a quote by Kasey Kahne who drives the 9 Budweiser car is is the only driver worth a damn on the whole team. He seems like he is going to be happy with the switch but just have to wait and see. The change wont go in to effect until next year with the Daytona 500.
“You know what I like — we have really good cars, but I feel like we need to make some gains engine-wise,” Kahne said. “And Roush-Yates engines are really good, but they can make some gains car-wise. Between all of us working together, we can make some big gains for next year.” Kasey Kahne
